Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC devs

2009-10-17 Thread Andrew Coppin
Martijn van Steenbergen wrote: David Virebayre wrote: Taking the opportunity to thank very much both Simons and Ian for the work they do and the enthusiasm they show. You guys rock. I heartily second that! I won't disagree with that sentiment. ;-) According to a paper I just read, GHC is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC devs

2009-10-16 Thread Martijn van Steenbergen
David Virebayre wrote: Taking the opportunity to thank very much both Simons and Ian for the work they do and the enthusiasm they show. You guys rock. I heartily second that! Martijn. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] GHC devs

2009-10-15 Thread David Virebayre
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Bulat Ziganshin bulat.zigans...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Andrew, Thursday, October 15, 2009, 12:54:37 AM, you wrote: Does anybody actually get paid to develop GHC? Or is this all people SPJ, SM and Ian are paid by MS Research. Other people involved in core

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC devs

2009-10-15 Thread Andrew Coppin
Don Stewart wrote: bulat.ziganshin: Hello Andrew, Thursday, October 15, 2009, 12:54:37 AM, you wrote: Does anybody actually get paid to develop GHC? Or is this all people SPJ, SM and Ian are paid by MS Research. Other people involved in core development are mainly scientists

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC devs

2009-10-15 Thread Daniel Peebles
Well-Typed is in the UK too :) On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Don Stewart wrote: bulat.ziganshin: Hello Andrew, Thursday, October 15, 2009, 12:54:37 AM, you wrote: Does anybody actually get paid to develop GHC? Or is this all people

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC devs

2009-10-15 Thread Andrew Coppin
Daniel Peebles wrote: Well-Typed is in the UK too :) Really? Cool! I wonder where... Oh, Oxford. So also not far from me. However, given that I can't even construct a simple sentence correctly... On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC devs

2009-10-15 Thread Max Cantor
It is pretty amazing what such a small coterie of devs has accomplished in GHC. Compare this to the thousands that work on GCC/ javac/csc and vis studio etc. So, once again, kudos. max On Oct 16, 2009, at 2:30 AM, Andrew Coppin wrote: Daniel Peebles wrote: Well-Typed is in the UK too :)

[Haskell-cafe] GHC devs

2009-10-14 Thread Andrew Coppin
Random question of the day: How many developers are working on GHC? I had always *assumed* that there was something like a hundred core developers, with a much larger number of people casually testing and occasionally submitting the odd patch or two. However, I watched a video of a talk the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC devs

2009-10-14 Thread Roel van Dijk
I think the contributors page on GHC's wiki contains relevant information: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Contributors ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC devs

2009-10-14 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Andrew, Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 10:28:45 PM, you wrote: I had always *assumed* that there was something like a hundred core developers only 10 and only in binary system :))) Simon Peyton-Jones works on front-end, i.e compiling Haskell down to simple core language, and Simon Marlow

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC devs

2009-10-14 Thread Don Stewart
bulat.ziganshin: Hello Andrew, Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 10:28:45 PM, you wrote: I had always *assumed* that there was something like a hundred core developers only 10 and only in binary system :))) Simon Peyton-Jones works on front-end, i.e compiling Haskell down to simple

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC devs

2009-10-14 Thread Andrew Coppin
Don Stewart wrote: bulat.ziganshin: Hello Andrew, Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 10:28:45 PM, you wrote: I had always *assumed* that there was something like a hundred core developers only 10 and only in binary system :))) About 1000 people have worked on libraries on

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] GHC devs

2009-10-14 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Andrew, Thursday, October 15, 2009, 12:54:37 AM, you wrote: Does anybody actually get paid to develop GHC? Or is this all people SPJ, SM and Ian are paid by MS Research. Other people involved in core development are mainly scientists (afaik) -- Best regards, Bulat

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC devs

2009-10-14 Thread Don Stewart
bulat.ziganshin: Hello Andrew, Thursday, October 15, 2009, 12:54:37 AM, you wrote: Does anybody actually get paid to develop GHC? Or is this all people SPJ, SM and Ian are paid by MS Research. Other people involved in core development are mainly scientists (afaik) Besides MSR and the